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i saw the how to on it, i just dont trust myself to do it, if i buy some used headlights... can i pay someone to paint them for me? im looking fomr someone that has done a few before and knows how to paint well
 
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blckout, if you get someone to do it for ya, let us know how it turns out!! i was wondering how they'd look on black trucks!! get some pics if you get it done!!!
 
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i painted mine, not hard at all. if you take your sweet *** time. you wont mess up
 
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if i could find someone to do mine, then i would do it... no way i would want to bake my headlights...
 
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i just dont paint well...
 
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blckout, if you get someone to do it for ya, let us know how it turns out!! i was wondering how they'd look on black trucks!! get some pics if you get it done!!!
ditto!
 
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heh, maby i can find someone around here that will do it, if so ill let yall know his price
 
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If u will bake them i will paint them for u but only one condition u bake mine
 
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I was thinking of doing the same thing...and too the corners too...hmmmmm
 
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bailey, thats what id wanna do too.. include the corners with the headlights. i'm having a hard time picturing it tho on a black truck!! would it be too much black then?? i wanna do it, but am afraid of what the out come may be!!!
 
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well im moving away from the chrome/black theme, so i was gonna get a black billet grill and some black tails too, make it all blacked out...minus those black light cover things...i think it would look pretty cool...im still in the process of finding the grill tho...
 
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Old 10-02-2004
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Bailey: I believe Carriage Works makes a black billet grill, check http://www.truckperformance.com.

I wanna do my corners, they are a little bit trickier than the headlights, you have to be more careful when getting them apart. I want to order another set to try it on.
 
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I had a carraige works black billet grill i liked it it is different from everyone else. And different is always better.
 
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Thanx Ryan.

I looked at Carriage works grills, and they have two black ones, one said that the factory grille is open across the top and the other says the factory grille is closed across the top...what does that mean? are they just overlays for the existing grille? i dont want over lays...i want to replace the stock grille
 
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no they replace it. The open across the top is for edges and the closed its for the non-edge
 
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yeah i just looked again, thanx...but there is some cutting involved, what did you have to cut?
 
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You have to cut the old gray grill out there are some tabs that hold it on you just have to dremel or die grinder it flush to the rest. It isn't hard.
 
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Newb to the forum!!

Whats up Ty! Long time no see!

Soccorjimmy from FTW has talked me into doing this mod so next weekend it is on!
 
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Hey yea i just got the pc goin again it is really easy it did it the easy way to get it done. too bad i couldn't get it back before i traded it in. It is harder to get the grill shell out than it is to put it in. I didn't even relize that we hijacked the thread sorry.
 
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Yeah...I hope they don't mind lol!

I found a factory black honeycomb grille for our trucks and also got a taurus emblem last weekend. I think that I will install the black grille and paint the grey one blue to match the truck. I wonder how hard it is to install lights behind the grille???
 
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